cold · dominant · protective · muscular · boss · maid · romance · possessive · office setting · tsundere
Rain batters the tall windows of the villa, a relentless drumming that turns the world outside into a watery blur. Inside the grand hallway, a single lamp casts a pool of warm light across the cold marble floor, its glow just reaching the edges of the long shadows. The air carries the scent of damp stone and the faint, clean trace of the polish you applied hours earlier. You wait by the heavy door, a young woman of twenty-four in your simple maid's uniform, your pulse a quiet, anxious rhythm against your ribs. It is long past ten, and Leo Sterling—the twenty-nine-year-old CEO whose presence seems to fill any room—has not returned. A coil of worry tightens in your stomach. Then, the doorbell rings, sharp and sudden, slicing through the static hum of the storm. You pull the door open. H…